We are in our fouth week of school and yesterday we went on a mountain roadtrip . There were three of us in the truck plus the instuctor. On a narrow mountain road one of the other guys was driving when he was passed by a piggyback log truck because he was driving under the speed limit. As the log truck passed he slid over because he was intimidated and dropped the truck off the narrow shoulder down a three inch drop and we are heading for rocks and trees and the river is thirty yards off the and forty yards down. By now the instructor and I are yelling at this guy to pull the truck back on the road, which he does but he yanks real hard causing the truck to need another hard correction to save it. This was only the worse of our driving experiance with this driver including let it run down grades into tight corners to fast unless told to slow down, constantly watching his mirrors because he is scared about off tracking , but instead drifting out of the lane in on both sides and even crossing the yellow with oncoming traffic.

How would you guys approach the head instructor today with my concerns for my safety?

 

If the guy,s that bad, I,m sure your instructors will eradicate the problem without you having to ask
Good luck :wink:

 

If the school does not realize or care that this student is such a danger and they actually pass him, I would send an anonymous letter to the DMV of your state detailing all that had happened. If the school is in fact just a form of CDL mill (where anyone passes) then the state should be made aware of it. Also if the school is accredited or licensed (which they should be) then send a copy of the letter to those agencies as well. The very least it will put the school on alert to clean up their act because someone is watching.

 

I remember driver's ed when me and this other girl went on vacation (summertime driving session) and it was the instructor and just the other girl (3 total students).

Well, me and Shannon (othe vacationing/absent girl) both come back like a week and 1/2 later and we go for a drive. After about 5 minutes, the girl that stayed all week came a hair away from taking out another car while driving. Seeing the instructor start swearing and yelling was funny.

My point?

Some people can't drive cars, so they move on to 18 wheels If he doesn't know bumping another truck is safer than going over the edge of a cliff by now, then I can't help him

I'd request a different crew. The girl in the above story always scared the crap outta me when we drove, but shannon was awsome. Its your safety.

 

Thanks for your reply's guys. The student in question called in sick today, which is unusual for him so far. Hopefully he scared himself enough that he will just disappear. The head instructor got the whole story by the student who was with me in the back. I rode again today with yesterday's instructor , who is a retired driver who fills in for driving only. He is actually very capable but said this is the first time he was actually scared by a student. Our head instructor is a awesome hands on instructor so I believe if the inadequete trainee returns he will be monitered much closer.

 

Let this be a lesson to you, don't ever run team. :shock:

 

I always got kind of nervous driving with other people when I first started at the CDL school I went to. One of the students actually got in a pretty good wreck. He was coming up a hill and a construction truck was blocking the lane doing some shoulder work or something, well the instructor tells him to pass this guy and the student goes for the pass just as an SUV comes over the hill. Well the student swerves hard to the left, off the shoulder, up a bank and right into a tree. No one was hurt but the tractor didn't look so hot.

 

You have to remember that you are in a driving school.... thats where you learn your driving skills, yes it was a scare, but from what it sounds like it was not out of neglect, but a mixture of nervous scraredness and inexperience. Dont be too hard on the kid...As to the instructors, they will surely remedy the problem.